Wednesday, May 30, 2012

A Bodhi Linux 2.0.0 Beginning

The Bodhi team and I are happy to announce the first pre-release (Read: Not suitable for daily usage machines) of our next major release Bodhi Linux 2.0.0! This release is considered alpha quality and is intended to allow our community to help test this release before it becomes our "stable" version.

The goal of a new major release is not to introduce ground breaking new features. The goal of a major Bodhi release is to allow our distro to transition to the next major Ubuntu LTS as a distro base. That is right folks - these ISO images are built on top of the recently released Ubuntu 12.04 (where is all previous Bodhi versions had been based on Ubuntu 10.04). The most noteworthy thing this release introduces is native support for 64bit. From this point forward all Bodhi releases will come in x86 and 64bit flavors.

Without further wait you can find these discs for download via source forge here.

Things to note with these CD images:

Not everything is going to work - we know this and so should you. The important thing is that when you find something that doesn't work let us know so we can fix it! The best solution for discussing issues you find is our user forums (not the comments section on this post).

I had a minor brain fart when building the latest set of packages for this image - which means when you select Bodhi Linux->About from the main menu, the version number still appears as "1.4.0", this numbering issue will be resolved within the next week via package manager updates.

The download size is large. Yep - there is nothing wrong with your eyes, those ISO images are kinda fat compared to previous Bodhi releases. This is because I have yet to start manually stripping out packages from the disc that aren't needed. That will be happening between now and the stable release (if you'd like to help with this, please feel free to post lists of pre-installed packages you notice that aren't needed).

The installer slides on the 32bit image have a permissions issue that prevents them from being displayed by the installer by default.

The network manager is not auto launching for the live user - it can be launched manually.

Network manager needs to be run with sudo to add connections - for a fix to this see here.

I will update this list with known issues as they are found/reported.

Thanks for reading and helping us test! Lets make sure this next release is as stable (and awesome) as possible.

Would that have anything to do with the PAE requirement of some of the 12.04 "flavors" (base and KDE)? I have a nice Pentium M Dell D800 notebook that won't work with those, but it does with the Xubuntu and Lubuntu versions (but the older Nvidia driver support is broken, and not looking as though it will be updated for the Xorg version in 12.04 - bummer).

Congretulations for the early tryI started with linux at ubuntu 6.06 and loved it since. I run new distros from USB sticks 4-32 GB and copy them over to my HD when I feel they can fit my daily computer needs. Currently I run Moon makara distro on the oldest of my computers P2 192GB RAM and Solus os on my Samsung netbook.I made a stripped down version of LXDE who needet only 128 MB ram to run smooth.I put great hopes in this new release to make my simple system even faster.

I have tried bodhi 1.4.0 and pleased. This is really a nice looking, high speed linux machine which run on a older laptop with only 256 MB RAM. I am so astonished that can not talk for minutes. I just only suggest you that please add Libre office and ibus on your next version. I am sure, if you add these, bodhi will be very popular in poor countries.

im running bodhi 2.0 32bit for four days now on my laptop (Lenovo sl300) while i was running ubuntu 12.04-gnome,and i have to say that is rock stable....fast as hell and is looking soooo nice!! Ill might try the 64bit version too.Keep the good work and many thx for this nice distro.

btw....every app that i was running wit ubuntu is running fine with bodhi too.

Jeff i highly appreciate your efforts to make beautiful and fast distribution and im glad that you have responded to my post.

Maybe there was a little misunderstanding,in stable release(1,4.0) there are also packages that are removed,but not purged therefore in synaptic package manager they are sorted in "Not installed (residual config)" - those are removed packages but still not completely removed-(purged). Btw. i can't wait for final release that is based on Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support and if i find something strange or that is not working i will do my best(for distro Benefit and all it's users) to help if im capable to :)

Ahh I see! Well one of the goals of 2.0.0 build 3 is to strip out all the extra fat from the disc - so if you download the next version of this disc and find some left over packages be sure to let us know so we can strip them out before the final release.

First I'd just like to say, Great job on 1.40. I just started using Bodhi, and I'm impressed. It don't get much more solid then 10.04 was as a base. That being said I hope Bodhi's E17 brings a lot more stability to the 12.04 base. I'm of the opinion that there's a huge elephant in the room amongst the Linux community, coupled with a ridiculous notion that if 12.04 fails, Linux somehow fails. The Elephant is this, Ubuntu 12.04 thus far is crap! It's buggy, it crashes 55 times a day.the App Report pop-up window can be seen 100 times a day, across all flavors, less so with Xubuntu and Lubuntu spins I'll admit. Unity is a hap-hazard and clunky, not very graceful at it's very best. Gnome Shell/Cinnamon while both a bit more graceful crash, crash, crash, and crash again! And I'm hoping to add both to my Bodhi 2.0.0 installation.

As far as Bodhi. I would seriously consider a menu editor for the new release, I believe this to be one of Bodhi's few drawbacks.

Hi Jeff, just to tell you I installed version 2 two days ago, and I'm pretty happy with it. It seems very stable already, and runs like a charm on my old machine. I have one question though. If I just keep updating this version, will I end up with the final version? Or would it be best to do a clean install once it's out?

Good day Jeff, first at all, I would like to thank you for your job. I have few questions for you.1.)It is a possibility to change base distribution from UBUNTU to DEBIAN - debian = more stable, more packages, more useful for real work and finally debian developes many developers and not one company. 2.)In E17 is possible to tweak panel to form, which will be more useful for wide screen? I mean something like in xfce 4.10 -> vertical panel with horizontal icons (desktop settings)?Thank you for your responseform, which will be more useful for wide screen? I mean something like in xfce 4.10 -> vertical panel with horizontal icons (desktop settings)?Thank you for your response

Tried it on a Acer AO722 netbook (AMD C-50 with built in radeon graphics). I had to use the "radeon.modeset=0" boot option. Without it, the screen was corrupted (but sys keys responded). I don't have to use this option with ubuntus/debians and derivatives, so it's strange?

Hello! I am trying to install Bhodi 2.0 but the process hangs, not the computer, in the detecting hardware part! I am using a hp notebook model tx2500 (tx2540br) with a ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Mobility Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]. I've tried the nomodeset ou radeon.modeset=0 without success. I can use the livecd normally but could not pass through the hardware detection!Thanks for your work and your attention and excuse-me for my bad English!

Jeff, excellent job!!!!Bodhi is very small end high performance, but kernel is i386, for compatibility. A good idea would be give option for kernel i686, like netbooks.Exemple (In installation):Choose your system:Old Computer: Kernel i386 (Default)64 bit System: Kernel 64 bitNew system: kernel i686Netbook: Optimized kernelI think that Bodhi is fly!!!Congratulations!!

Love Bodhi. Running an old Gateway series 7400 (AMD 64 chip) laptop with it. Use it everyday. Loads in under a minute - stable, fast, attractive. Two thumbs up.Congratulations,I still remember finding Bodhi one Sunday night. I think you were at 0.6 release.I think I sent you a 'check.'Will send more.

hows it goin? just wanting to mention 1.4 works out of box with r8712u driver for a belkin n150 usb dongle wlan0. not sure why in the new build4 it is not working after sudo nm-applet. im sure you guys are working on alot. keep up the good work. i like the new couple themes especially the blue one. hope 2 see the stable version SOON. i always love feeling up to date ;) 12.04 HERE WE COME!

Best thing I can suggest regarding your wireless is trying a different kernel build from the repo.

Unfortunately this is the issue with changing kernels - while some hardware starts working other pieces break. Not much we can do to prevent this as it is impossible to test with all hardware (plus our kernel builds from directly from upstream Ubuntu).

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